29th October 2009 / Wolverine / Movies / Appearances / Musings

MCM Expo was great. Thanks to everyone who came out to the Comic Village, and the panels I appeared on, and especially to the many people who picked up WASTELAND for the first time. Getting there and back with my stock of books was somewhat of a pain, but definitely worth it, and I hope to return next year.

Next month, however, I’ll be at Thought Bubble in Leeds. The full programme for the festival is now online; I’ll have a table, plus I’m on two Saturday panels, and I’ll list it all here closer to the time.

WOLVERINE: PRODIGAL SON has made it onto two prestigious shortlists: The American Library Association/YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens, and the Texas Library Association Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List. Libraries are one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors for graphic novel reading in the USA, so this is awesome.

Movie news: THREE DAYS IN EUROPE has a writer attached, and F Gary Gray talks about his take on JULIUS.

I’ve been recruited to work on another of those ‘out of left field’ projects I seem to fall into with some regularity. This one’s a bit closer to home than most, but still quite a surprise. More details very soon, I should think.

Finally: my good friend Drew Gilbert — animator, traveller, artist of ROSEMARY’S BACKPACK and all round great guy — is attempting this year’s Tough Guy challenge in celebration of impending fatherhood. Drew is doing this in aid of Free Arts NYC, so he needs sponsorship, and is offering cartoon portraits for donations of $35+. Follow his training progress, and please consider helping him out.

 

20th August 2008 / Julius / Movies

Following on from yesterday’s JULIUS news, I spoke to MTV’s Splash Page blog about the deal, and hopefully scotched a few rumours in the process. Let me do that again here:

Contrary to some of the bizarre “news” stories I’ve seen in the last 24 hours, I am not writing the screenplay, the book does not come out sometime next year (it was published in 2004, you numpties) and I am not an executive producer on the movie. Oh, and at no point in the book does Julius say “Oi, an’ you too, Brett?”

It’s amazing what people can read it into the shortest of press releases.

 

19th August 2008 / Julius / Movies

Quick one: Mandalay Pictures have acquired the movie rights to JULIUS, my 2004 graphic novel with Brett Weldele. I’ve been sitting on this news for a while, but now it’s finally public.

F. Gary Grey is attached to direct, which should be interesting; THE ITALIAN JOB did nothing for me, but THE NEGOTIATOR was one of my favourite thrillers of the ’90s. No word on a screenwriter or actors yet.

 

18th April 2008 / Dead Space / Videogames / Three Days In Europe / Movies / Anthologies

I’m away for a family get-together this weekend, so let’s have a news round-up before I go:

THREE DAYS IN HOLLYWOOD
As reported by Variety, Jennifer Garner has signed a first-look deal at Warner Bros and one of the movies on her slate is THREE DAYS IN EUROPE—starring Garner and Hugh Jackman (!). Yes, I’m quite happy about this; no, it doesn’t mean a movie will actually get made any time soon. But here’s hoping, because that’s some pretty awesome casting.

SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD
Over on the DEAD SPACE blog, Senior Producer and game story guru Chuck Beaver appears to have let the cat out of the bag on one of those left-field projects I mentioned at the start of the year:

We did a master timeline so the Comic and Animated Feature could see the events, referencing and riffing on whatever sounded cool. Antony Johnston did the writing for the Comics and the game dialogue, so the consistency was locked up there (plus we bought him coffee during WonderCon).

Yes, it’s true; Chuck bought me far too many Grande Lattes at WonderCon.

No, wait, that’s not it… Oh, yes; I also wrote the dialogue script for the game. Which was exceedingly cool.

(You may think it’s not much to shout about, but remember all those hundreds of pages of script unaccounted for in my Q1 roundup? Yeah. There’s a lot of story and dialogue in DEAD SPACE.)

DEAD CITIES
Still with DEAD SPACE, I’ll be attending Sci-Fi London 2008 alongside EA’s Glen Schofield, the game’s Executive Producer and all-round walking injury. No idea what the schedule is yet, but I know there’s a press event or two involved, and talk of a signing at Forbidden Planet. More details when I have them.

NO TORI US*
You may have seen the blitz of news stories concerning COMIC BOOK TATTOO, the Tori Amos-themed anthology to be published this summer through Image, with a veritable plethora of quality creators contributing. Sadly, despite previous news (and my name being in the PR) I won’t be a part of the book after all. I wanted to, as I’ve been a Tori fan all the way back from CRUCIFY, but circumstances beyond my control threw a spanner in the works, and it wasn’t to be. You should buy CBT anyway, of course, because it looks bloody ace.

*Sorry.

 

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